Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Том 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... was a poem by a country parson ; the description of a sea - port town , so full of real life , yet so homely and often prosaic , that its effect on me was confounding . Why , it is not poetry , and yet how clever ! CRABBE.
... was a poem by a country parson ; the description of a sea - port town , so full of real life , yet so homely and often prosaic , that its effect on me was confounding . Why , it is not poetry , and yet how clever ! CRABBE.
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... towns , the various haunts of men , Require the pencil ; they defy the pen . Could he , who sung so well the Grecian Fleet , So well have sung of Alley , Lane , or Street ? Can measured lines these various buildings show , The Town ...
... towns , the various haunts of men , Require the pencil ; they defy the pen . Could he , who sung so well the Grecian Fleet , So well have sung of Alley , Lane , or Street ? Can measured lines these various buildings show , The Town ...
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... town lies between a low hill or cliff , on which only the old church and a few better houses were then situated , and the beach of the German ocean . It consisted of two parallel and unpaved streets , running between mean and scrambling ...
... town lies between a low hill or cliff , on which only the old church and a few better houses were then situated , and the beach of the German ocean . It consisted of two parallel and unpaved streets , running between mean and scrambling ...
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... town - hall , the only indication of municipal dignity , a few groups of mariners , chiefly pilots , taking their quick , short walks backward and forward , every eye watchful of the signal from the offing - such was the squalid scene ...
... town - hall , the only indication of municipal dignity , a few groups of mariners , chiefly pilots , taking their quick , short walks backward and forward , every eye watchful of the signal from the offing - such was the squalid scene ...
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... town , Its various wares for country use bring down , ' etc. * He was " For one destined to distinction as a portrayer of char- acter , " continues his son , " few scenes could have been more favorable than that of his infancy and ...
... town , Its various wares for country use bring down , ' etc. * He was " For one destined to distinction as a portrayer of char- acter , " continues his son , " few scenes could have been more favorable than that of his infancy and ...
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